This recipe is simple and uses just a few ingredients: tomatoes, fresh basil, avocado, Mozzarella cheese, and easy homemade balsamic dressing. Healthy and delicious! Makes a great side dish to all kinds of grilled meats and fish!

In a small bowl, combine all dressing ingredients: whisk olive oil, balsamic vinegar and honey until nice and smooth.

Add the salad dressing to the large bowl with salad, sprinkle with a small amount of salt, and toss to combine. Taste and season with more salt, if needed. Add Mozzarella cheese balls on top only at this point - so that they don't brown from the dressing.

The salad was amazing. The dressing amount was way too much. It was added after we arrived at the party and just dumped on and there was so much it sat in the bottom 🙁 I will definitely make this again – I will however, add a small amount of dressing at a time.

I would hold off on cutting the avocado too far in advance, it turns brown pretty quick & brown avocado is not pretty.

I made a small batch of this recipe for my dinner tonight & it was so darn good, I put the gazpacho I had poured back in the fridge & made a 2nd small batch. Just for me! I did enjoy it over a handful of fresh spring greens & substituted balsamic reduction I already had made (vs making the dressing for just me) but that dressing looks so perfectly matched, I can hardly wait to serve the complete recipe along side crab cake & fried green tomato stacks this weekend.

Thanks so much for a light, satisfying dinner that was so good, I had to have seconds.